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CITY PARKS 
Public Parks are an outgrowth of the need of the city man to get "back to nature." They are the "people's 
estates," and are kept up for the people, by the people. Parks are not only a matter of civic pride, they are a 
necessity, recognized by all communities, as witness the millions of dollars spent annually by Chicago, New 
York, Boston, St. Louis and other large cities in the development of well nigh perfect park systems, and 
growing towns would do well to note that their park systems have taken years to mature, and that, it takes 
time and skill, as well as money, to obtain results. Secure land for public purposes in your town while it is 
cheap. Do not wait until it is so high in price that public funds will be exhausted paying for it. Then let u s 
furnish you a practical working plan, that you can fill out as you have the funds to do so. 
PLANT LONG AVENUES OF TREES We can furnish you with quickly growing varieties to 
alternate with the slower growing, which will produce shade within a year, and may be cut down when the 
others mature. If feasible, let your park site be on a lake, water is always beautiful and lends Itself favorably 
to natural or formal treatment. 
DROOPING WILLOWS OR WEEPING BIRCH 
make a cool shade on a lake shore as a resting place for the weary urbanite, and the cool breath of pines 
I, ':e. a walk ' 'ightful on a hot summer day. If you have not natural aquatic facilities, a small lagoon 
f ' ; ti 'RLy i- >'°ry effective and easy to obtain. 
H WE WALKS AND DRIVES LAID OUT SYMMETRICALLY 
thicidy with shade trees and flowering shrubs. For the trees, we would suggest Elms, Popk 
ana - /ergreens of all kinds, as to the shrubs, the Lilac, Snowball, Weigelia, Spirea and other standard *o r 
Write to us; we make a speciality of parks in small and growing towns, as well as the larger cities. 
These are merely suggestions.^. We could go into the matter fully with you on application. 
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